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Thursday, March 24, 2011

Thoughts about kits and layouts from Jenni Bowlin online crop

Few weeks ago I saw that Jenni Bolwin Design Team is hosting an online crop. I love online crops, I love challenges and I love Jenni Bolwin so I decided to jump in. The crop was lots of fun. The

DT members posted challenges and we had a week to complete them (except for the timed challenges). You can see the challenges here (I think you will need a ning account for that). I made quite a few layouts. I am not going to list the supplies as I always do. For all my layouts I used old Jenni Bolwin kits.

This first layout was made for a timed challenge. We had to use a favorite/inspiring quote. It took me 10 minutes to read the challenge, 15 minuted to browse the given links to pininterest looking for a quote, 15 minutes to convince Eli to stop crying and let mama scrap. That left me 20 minutes to make the layout, take a picture and upload it. I am showing you the picture I took the next morning. Believe me the original was not pretty.

This layout was made for the oval challenge. I usually do not use ovals, so I had quite a few left in my stash.

This layout was made for the banner challenge. I used some papers and embellishments from my first Jenni Bowlin kit. I think in was February or March 2007.

The next layout was made for the sketch challenge. Looking at the pictures I suddenly thought that I don't remember where this Teddy Bear came from. We still have it. I checked the label that said "WORLD Duty Free".... and I remembered. I brought it from my business trip to London. It was in 1999 or 2000. I was there for only 2 or 3 days and I remember before my flight back I went to the Duty Free shop in the airport and looked for something to buy for Lila. I saw this Teddy Bear and bought it. It traveled with me from London to Israel and now he lives in Wisconsin :)

I was glad to dig into my stash and use some of the kits. Jenni Bolwin kit was the only subscription kit that I had. I stopped the subscription last year in my efforts to cut my scrapboooking expenses and to use up what I already have. Meanwhile I collected 3 years of kits.I love them so much that I can't take them apart. My layouts don't use lots of product so those kits last forever for me. I finally made a decision to take apart kits that don't have at least one full sheet of cardstock or paper left. Notice I said - "made a decision", I didn't say "took apart". I don't know why it is so difficult :) So what do you do with older kits? Do you keep them? Take them apart? Do you have a system?

I will post the rest of my layouts from the crop later this week. I am planning another post tonight. Stay tuned :)

Amazing layouts Maya! I also have been hardpressed to take apart my JB kits...I stopped subbing about 2 years ago but I got both kits monthly so I have quite a stash. I need to build new kit around the older stuff...or participate in the next online crop!

Thank you so much for leaving a comment on my blog! I am glad to know I am not the only with YEARS worth of kits stashed away. Like you, I have several years of Jenni's kit. Your layouts are wonderful.